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Merited irrationality and intellectual metaethics:
We should reject an old philosophical idea: that the good life is an epistemically rational life. In this context, I defend pluralism about doxastic evaluation: epistemic evaluation is just one among several forms of doxastic or intellectual evaluation, and has no pride of place among them. In defense of this, I challenge standard accounts of the aim of belief.
The Aims of Cognition and Conation
Wishful Thinking as Responding to Non-Epistemic Theoretical Reasons
What's So Bad About Bad Faith? (with Simon Feldman)
Other works in progress:
Color Physicalism and Color Projectivism (with Edward Averill)
Amoralism and Aesthetic Apathy
Faith and Liberalism
How the Present Depends on the Future
A Defence of Vaguely Restricted Composition
Papers that are forthcoming:
Brutal Individuation, in New Waves in Metaphysics (Palgrave-Macmillan)
A Problem for Relational Theories of Color (with Edward Averill), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
The Myth of Factive Verbs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research; winner of the 2007 Young Epistemologist Prize
How to Defend Response Moralism, British Journal of Aesthetics 49:3 (2009)
Papers that are out:
"Knowledge and Conversation," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79:1 (2009), pp. 591-620
"Grice's Razor," Metaphilosophy 37:5 (2007), pp. 669-690
"Disassembly and Destruction," The Monist 89:3 (2006), pp. 418-33
"Epistemic Conceptions of Begging the Question," Erkenntnis 65:3 (2006), pp. 343-63
"How to Defeat Belief in the External World," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87:2 (2006), pp. 198-212
"Possible Evils," Ratio 19:2 (2006), pp. 191-8
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